Issue Areas
Arts, Media, & Culture
As a common point of reference, arts, media, and culture ultimately bring people together in viewership, production, and experience and can serve as a critical avenue of social action and change.
Arts, Media, & Culture
Economic Development
How can we reimagine “development” to achieve a society where all can not only live with dignity, but also have the opportunity to flourish?
Economic Development
Education & Access
The promotion of a just and civically responsible society depends highly on our ability to provide people with equal access to an education system that helps them think critically about themselves and their communities.
Education & Access
Environment & Sustainability
Scientists have confirmed that human impact on global environments is not sustainable, making issues surrounding the environment and sustainability some of the most pressing of our time.
Environment & Sustainability
Ethics & Human Rights
In an increasingly globalized world, students should engage critically with emerging global issues such as human rights abuses, medical ethics, economic development, free speech, and more.
Ethics & Human Rights
Identities & Inequality
The United States experiences vast inequality along lines of identity—including, but not limited to, race, gender, class, and education.
Identities & Inequality
Politics & Public Policy
Politics & Public Policy is a broad category that encapsulates everything from social justice advocacy to law to political campaigns and community organizing. It is the critical way in which communities can engage with their government and their fellow constituents.
Politics & Public Policy
Public Health
The promotion of health-care equity, quality, and accessibility to address health disparities is also an essential part of public health.
Public Health
Refugees & Immigration
Migration is deeply intertwined with every era of United States’ history. Through collective efforts, we can tackle the different facets of migration that make it challenging, and often impossible, for immigrants and refugees to adapt to their new lives.
Refugees & Immigration
Science & Society
Science has always been entangled with the fabric of society: its belief systems, culture, needs, past, and future. Science can be a tool that is directly and actively involved in studying and solving societal problems and helping communities thrive.
Science & Society
